Scoring apparatus



Jan. 12, 1937. F. B. LEE

SCORING APPARATUS 3 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Jan. 9, 1936 F 10 1/0 B Lee Jan. 12, 1937. F 3 LEE 2,067,769

SCORING APPARATUS (I Filed Jan. 9, 1956 a Sheets-Sheet 5 Floyd Fl e milmbdc Patented Jan. 12, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SCORING APPARATUS Floyd B. Lee, Hays, Kans.

Application January 9, 1936, Serial No. 58,379

6 Claims (01. 3548) This invention relates to a scoring apparatus, designed primarily for the use by educational institutions, but it is to be understood that an apparatus, in accordance with this invention may be employed in any connection for which it is found applicable, and the invention has for its object to provide, in a manner hereinafter set forth, an apparatus of the class referred to including means to provide for scoring the number 19 of correct answers, indicated by a student to test questions.

Further objects of the invention are to provide, in a manner as hereinafter set forth, a scoring apparatus for the purpose referred to which is simple in its construction and arrangement,

strong, durable, conveniently operated, thoroughly efficient for the purpose intended thereby,

and inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects as may hereinafter appear, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more specifically described and are as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown an embodiment of the invention,

- but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications may be resorted to which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus with- 3 out the punch guide or board and indicating element,

Figure 2 is the top plan view of the punch guide or board in open position,

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view of the ap- 35 paratus without the punch guide or board and indicating element,

Figure 4 is a front elevation, broken away of the indicating element,

Figure 5 is a top plan view of the apparatus,

and

Figure 6 is a fragmentary view in vertical section of the apparatus in scoring position.

The apparatus includes a base structure I in the form of a table having its top 2 provided with two spaced pairs of spaced openings. The openings of one pair are indicated at 3 and those of the other pair at 4. The openings 3 align with each other. The openings 4 align with each other and also align with the openings 3. Secured at the lower ends thereof to the top 2 of the base structure I are spaced pairs of vertically disposed uprights. The uprights of each pair are arranged in aligned spaced relation. The uprights of each pair align with the uprights of the other pair. The uprights of one pair are indicated at 5 and those of the other pair at 6. The uprights 5 are connected together, at their lower portions by a brace member I. The rear upright 5 is connected to the rear upright 6 by a brace member 8. The members I, 8 are arranged at the lower portions of the rear uprights 5, 6. The inner side edge of each of said uprights in close proximity to its upper end has secured thereto an inwardly extending stop 9 for purpose to be referred to. Arranged below the stops 9 and above the lower ends of the uprights is a pair of spaced parallel horizontally extended oppositely disposed rabbeted bars I0, I I which constitute track rails and coact to form a track extending at right angles to the uprights. The bar I0 is arranged against the inner faces of the front uprights 5, 6. The bar II is arranged against the inner faces of the rear uprights 5, 6. The rabbets on said bars I 0, I I are in the upper faces of the bars, at the inner marginal portions of the latter. The rabbets of the bars I0, II provide each bar with a vertical shoulder I2 and a supporting ledge I3 extending inwardly at right angles to the bottoms of the shoulder I2. The bars I0, II are fixedly secured to the uprights by holdfast device I4.

Slidably mounted on the track provided by the bars I0, I I is a combined indicator element holder and marker member passage element I5 of rectangular contour and which travels between the pair of uprights 5 and the pair of uprights 6. The element I5 is of greater length than the distance between the pairs of uprights. The element I5 will be termed an apertured holder and includes a pair of elongated, parallel, spaced side members I6 of rectangular contour, each disposed on a lengthwise edge thereof. Arranged between the members I6 and fixedly secured to the inner faces thereof is a panel I1 which is spaced from the top and bottom edges of the members I6. Mounted upon the upper face of the panel H, at the transverse center of the latter, is a fiat combined brace and partition member l8 which is secured to the inner faces of the members I6 and also to the upper face of the panel I'I. Adjacent each side of the member I8, the panel I l is formed with a set of spaced groups of rows of openings. The groups of openings of one set are indicated at I9 and those of the other set at 20. The sets of groups are spaced from the ends of the panel I8. The rows of openings of each group are disposed transversely of the panel IT. The openings of each row are spaced equi-distant from each other. The rows of openings of each group are spaced equi-distant from each other. The number of the rows of openings of each group is five. The number of the openings of each group is one hundred and fifty. The number of the openings of each row of a group is thirty. The manner in which the element |5 functions will be hereinafter referred to.

Secured to the inner side faces of the uprights at a point above and in close proximity to the bars H), H is a guide element 2| provided with a set of spaced groups of spaced rows of openings 22. The arrangement of the groups of openings in the guide element 2| corresponds to that of the set of groups l9 or 20. Each group of openings 22 of the element 2| corresponds in arrangement and number to a group of the set I!) or to a group of the set 20. When the apparatus is employed for scoring, the openings of the set of group of openings 22 are to align with the set I!) or the set 20, depending whether set L) or set 23 has been selected for use. When set l9 or set 20 is selected for use it is arranged between the pairs of uprights below the element 2| in a manner whereby the openings of the set If! or the openings of the set 2|! will be arranged in direct alignment with the openings of the set 22 and in this connection attention is directed to Figure 6.

Slidably extending through the openings 3, 4 is a spring control vertically movable carrier element 23. The element 23 includes two pairs of spaced parallel uprights 24, 25 having their upper ends engageable with the stops 9 to limit the upward movement of element 23. The uprights 24 are arranged against the inner side edges of uprights 5, 6. Secured to the uprights 24, 25, in close proximity to their upper ends and also disposed between the pair of uprights 5 and the pair of uprights 6 is a support 21, in the form of a frame having its inner edge rabbeted to form an endless shoulder 28 and an endless seat 29. The support 21 is bodily movable with the weights 24, 25 in a direction towards and from the element 2|.

The lower ends of the uprights 24, 25 have secured thereto a cross piece 21d and combined brace and connecting members 211). The cross piece 21a has attached thereto the lower end of the controlling springs 210 of the carrier element 23. The upper ends of the springs 210 are attached to the lower face of the top 2 of the base structure I. Pivoted with the legs 28:; of the base structure I, as at 281) is a foot tread 28c. Interposed between the foot tread 28c and the cross piece 21a is a link 29a loosely connected at one end, as at 291) to the cross piece 21a and at its other end, as at 290 to the foot tread 280. The springs 210 function to normally maintain the carrier 23 in an elevated position. The lowering of the carrier 23 is had against the action of the springs 270. The controlling springs 21c extend at an outward inclination in opposite directions from their lower to their upper ends. The lower ends of the springs 210 are connected together.

The apparatus includes a controlling element 30 consisting of a marker board 3| provided with a set of spaced groups of spaced rows of openings 32. The arrangement of the openings 32 correspond to the arrangement of the openings I9, 253, 22. The element 30 includes pre-set vertically movable marking or scoring members 33 which are removably, mounted in selected openings 32 and constitute weights. The members 33 preferably are headed nails and are so shown. The nails correspond in length and weight. The men bers 33 have their lowering movement arrested by the non-punched portions of the indicating element to be referred to.

The apparatus includes a registering mechanism 34 which functions to register the number of scores or in other words the aggregate number of correct answers indicated on an indicating element, to be referred to by a student to objective test questions. The mechanism 34 includes a spring controlled normally elevated disc 35 carried by a vertical shaft 36 extended upwardly from a housing 37 of the mechanism 34. The disc 35 is lowered against the action of its controlling spring by the marker members 33. The mechanism 34 includes a dial 38 and a pointer 39. The mechanism 34 is in the form or" a weigh ing scale now in general use and the weight indicating graduations of such type of scale are employed to set forth the aggregated number of correct answers indicated by the student. The mechanism 34 is supported upon a base 40 mounted upon the top 2 of the base structure The apparatus includes a sheet-1ike member providing an indicator element 4| which is employed by the student to indicate the answers which he selects to test questions. The element 4| consists of a paper web 4|a. Although the element 4| is termed an indicator yet it will be known as a score sheet and is so designated as at 42. The web 4|a. of the element 4| has conventional means at the upper portion of its outer face, as at 43 for the insertion of the section to which the student belongs, the seat number of the section, the score made by the student, the students name, the date and the character of the test. Below the means 43 the sheet is formed with three spaced parallel columns of numbers 44, 45 and 45. The numbers of the column 44 consists of one to thirty inclusive, the numbers of the column 45 consists of thirty-one to sixty inclusive and the numbers of the column 46 consists of from sixty-one to ninety. Interposed between the columns 44 and 45 are spaced superposed horizontally disposed rows of digits 4! and each row consists of from one to five. The number of the horizontal rows of digits 4! is thirty and each horizontal row aligns with a number of the row 44. Interposed between the columns 45 and 46 are spaced superposed horizontally disposed rows of digits 43 and each row consists of from one to five. The number of the horizontal rows is thirty and each horizontal row 48 aligns with a number of the row 45. Arranged adjacent to the row of numbers 43 are spaced superposed horizontally disposed rows of digits 45-3 and each row consists of from one to five. The number of the horizontal rows of digits 49 is thirty and each horizontal row 49 aligns with a number of the row 45. Each. group of rows containing five digits corresponds in arrangement to a group of openings of the set or a group of openings of the set 28 or a group of openings of the set 22 or a group of openings of the set 32. Each number of each of the columns 44, 45 and 46 indicates the numerical designation of a test question. Each question will have five answers. The five answers of each question are indicated by a row of digits one to five. Each digit constitutes an answer designated to an objective test question. The digits are selectively punched out to indicate what answer the student selects, of the five answers to a test question. I I

With reference to Figure 2 there is shown a punch or guide board upon which the element 4| is positioned when the student is indicating his answers to the questions by punching selective digits of element M. The punch or guide board is indicated generally at 50 and it includes a body part 5| provided with a set of groups of openings 52 corresponding in arrangement to the set of groups |9 or the set of groups 20 or the set of groups 22 or the set of groups 32.- The body part 5| is hinged as at 53 to a cover 54 therefore. The element 50 is shown by way of example as being of book-like form.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: After the element 4| has been punched by the student to indicate his answers to the objective test questions, the element 4| is positioned upon the apertured holder or element i5 in relation to the openings of the set l9, that is to say, the element 4| is arranged in superimposed relation with respect to the openings of the set indicated at 9. The element 5 is then shifted to position the indicator element 4| directly below the guide element 2| When the indicator element is arranged directly below the guide element 2|, the digits of the element 4| align with the openings of the set 22. When the element 4| is positioned on element IS, the digits of element 2| also align with the openings of the set l9. After the element 4| has been arranged in the position aforesaid, the controlling element 30 is mounted in the'support 21 in superposed relation with respect to the element 2|. Before element 30, is mounted in support 21, the marking or scoring members 33 are arranged in selective openings of element 30, the arrangement of said members being at points to indicate correct answers to the objective test questions. After the element 3|! has been arranged upon the support 27, the carrier is lowered so as to move element 30 in a direction toward element I5. The marker members 33 pass through openings in the guide element 2| and move in a direction towards the indicator element 4|. The marker members 33, then move by gravity through the punched openings made by the student in element 4| which indicate correct answers. If certain of the answers are not correct then certain of the marker members 33 do not pass through and are arrested by element 4|. The manner in which the marker members 33 are arranged relative to the other elements of the apparatus when scoring correct answers is shown in Figure 6. The punched openings in element 4| which indicate the correct answers have certain marker members pass therethrough and such members 30 also pass through openings i5 and abut the disc 35. The weight of the marker members on the disc 35 will lower the same whereby the pointer 39 will be operated to indicate the aggregate score of correct answers made by the student,

The dial on the scales has been calibrated so that each space exactly registers one weight. The instructor, when the disc is lowered, may read from the face of the dial the number of correct answers which the student has made. Thus since there are ninety possible questions with ninety possible answers a student's score sheet which represents a perfect score would be scored at ninety from the position of the pointer on the scales. If, however, seventy-five of the answers were in the correct place then seventy-five marker members which fall through on the scales, the scales would register seventy-five.

During the operation of the apparatus with respect to the element 4| which is mounted in superposed relation with respect to the set of openings I9, the indicating element of another student is mounted upon the set of openings 20. When the score of the element 4| which is mounted on the openings I9 is obtained, the element I5 is shifted to an extent to position the element 4| which is arranged upon the openings 20 to below the element 2|.

Suitable stop means indicated at 55, 56, 51, 58 are employed for limiting the shifting movement of the element IS in opposite directions and which also function to dispose the indicator element in proper relation with respect to element 2|. The stops 55, 56 coact. The stops 51, 58 coact. The stops 55, 5! are carried by the bars "I, The stops 56, 58 are carried by the element l5. The stops 55, are arranged below and in the path of the stops 55, 58.

What I claim is:

1. In a scoring apparatus, a vertically disposed suporting structure including spaced track rails positioned between its upper and lower ends,

sheet-like members, each provided with consecutively numbered test questions and rows of spaced indicia aligning with said questions constituting answer designators to said questions for selective punching to form spaced openings in the member, a stationary guide element within said structure above said rails and provided with open ings to align with the spaced indicia on a member, a shiftable holder mounted on said members slidable in opposite directions relative to said structure and having means for removably receiving a pair of punched members in sidewise spaced relation to successively position the members of said pair to align the punched and nonpunched indicia with the openings in the guide element, said holder being formed with openings for aligning with the punched and non-punched indicia of the members of said pair, a vertically removable spring controlled carrier operating in said structure above the guide element, a controlling element removably mounted in and bodily movable with the carrier and provided with openings for aligning with the openings in the guide element, pre-set marker members depending through selected openings in and carried by the controlling element for passage through certain of the openings in said guide element and certain of the openings in one of said members and said holder on the downward movement of the carrier to engage and operate a means for setting forth a total score.

2. The invention as set forth in claim 1 having said apertured holder and track members provided with co-acting means for limiting the shifting of the apertured holder in opposite directions and to provide for the aligning of the punched and non-punched indicia of an indicator element with the openings in the guide element.

3. In a scoring apparatus, a vertically disposed stationary supporting structure including horizontally disposed spaced parallel track members intermediate the upper and lower ends thereof, a stationary guide element within said structure above said members and provided with openings, 2. shiftable apertured holder mounted on said members slidable in opposite directions relative to said structure and having means for receiving a pair of punched indicator elements in sidewise spaced relation for successively positioning the indicator elements of said pair below said guide element, a vertically movable spring controlled carrier operating in said structure above the guide element, a controlling element removably mounted in and bodily movable with the carrier element and provided with openings for aligning with the openings in the guide element, pre-set marker members depending through selected openings of the controlling element for passage through certain openings in said guide element, openings in one of said indicator elements and through said holder'element on the downward movement of the carrier to engage and operate a means to set forth a total score.

4. The invention as set forth in claim 3 having said track members and apertured holder provided with co-acting means for limiting the shifting of the apertured holder in opposite directions.

5. In a scoring apparatus, a vertically disposed supporting structure including spaced parallel horizontally disposed track members extending laterally therefrom in opposite directions, a totalizing device arranged within said structure below said members, an apertured guide element fixed within said structure above said members, a shiftable holder mounted on said members, slidable in opposite directions and having spaced apertured means for receiving a pair of punched indicator elements in sidewise spaced relation, said holder providing for successively positioning the indicator elements below said guide element, a foot operated vertically movable spring controlled carrier operating within said structure, a controlling element removably mounted in and bodily movable with the carrier and having openings aligning with the openings in the guide element, and pre-set marker elements depending from said controlling element for passing through the guide element and idicator element and apertured holder on the downward movement of the carrier to engage and operate said totalizing device.

6. The invention as set forth in claim 5 having said apertured holder and track members provided with co-acting means for limiting the slidable movement of the apertured holder in opposite directions.

FLOYD B. LEE. 

